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It is a hopper that is filled with debris, then locked to the prongs of a fork truck so that the operator can safely lift it from the ground and carry its contents to a dumpster. Forklift hoppers are made from heavy gauge steel and come in a variety of sizes. Some can carry up to 6,000 pounds of waste material at a time.

How does a lift truck dumpster operate?

The hopper is placed flat on the ground so that the forklift driver can insert the forks into the fork pockets. The hopper is secured, and then it is loaded with debris. The operator then raises the hopper above eye level in order to be able to see while driving it to the dumpster. A safety lock keeps it from dumping its contents while it travels over rough ground. Once it is in position over the dumpster, the operator can use either a rope release or lever release to dump the debris.

Where are lift truck dumpsters used?

They are used in many different industrial facilities. Warehouses use them to clean up their yards so that vehicles and pedestrians can maneuver more safely. Recycling centers use fork lift hoppers to transport aluminum cans, plastic bottles, glass, cardboard, and other materials to large trucks that transport them to recycling plants. Another place where you find these forklift attachments is a dockyard, where debris is separated and transported away from materials that are brought in on ships. Distribution centers, manufacturing plants, and refineries are other industries that use forklift dumpsters to haul waste materials to dumpsters. Perhaps the largest user group, however, is the construction industry. Constructions sites witness the accumulation of debris throughout the day. The most practical way to move this debris is with a forklift attachment that will elevate it above ground level and carry it out of the way of construction crews.

When is it economical to invest in a lift truck dumpster?

We would recommend you invest in at least one of these hoppers if you are transporting several loads of debris that weigh several hundred pounds or more. There are manual carts that can haul smaller loads and even simple tools like wheelbarrows that can haul off things like brick and scrap metal. However, heavy debris requires not only a mechanism for transport, but also a mechanism that can safely lift it high enough into the air to unload into the dumpster.

Materials that are commonly disposed of with fork truck hoppers include steel, wood scrap, used cement bags, concrete, rocks, and stumps.

Yes. Different lengths of aluminum extrusion, ranging from 2 to 5 inches, are used to build structures in different sizes and styles. Application guides the design process. We do not build anything generic, even if we are building one of our more popular shelter types; we offer clients options in roof designs and material constitution.

Also, we can have your shelter built with a number of optional amenities. Popular options include solar power, wind skirts, doors and heating for the winter.

What kinds of organizations use aluminum shelters?

All types of organizations with bus traffic need bus stop shelters. These include, but are not limited to, schools, airports, city transit routes, large commercial campuses, and retirement homes with shuttle services.

How stable are these shelters?

They are very stable. They mount directly to the concrete with pads and fasteners that hold them firmly in place. Walls, supports, and roofs are prefabricated and shipped knocked down so you can assemble them quickly as soon as your shipment arrives.

How easy is it for a client to assemble the structure themselves?

It is very simple. You will need a fork truck to transport the component parts to the installation site. Once there, basic hand tools like a hammer, a pop rivet gun, and an electric drill will be all you need to assemble the structure.

What sizes of aluminum shelters do you build?

Depending on the type of shelter we design, the shelter can be anywhere from 2’ by 6’ on up to 10’ by 30’.

Are shelters built exclusively with aluminum, or are other materials also used?

They are much more advanced than what you may be visualizing, which is would be more like a metal shed than a true shelter. Our shelters feature an aluminum frame, a roof made from acrylic or aluminum, and either glass or polyethylene sides. This creates a very sturdy structure, anchored firmly to the ground, and able to withstand the pounding of the elements. At the same time, the clear walls provide persons inside with excellent visibility of their surroundings while the roof shelters them from direct sunlight.

It is a type of fork lift attachment made in the shape of a large, powerful, cylindrical arm that attaches to the forks of a forklift. Its primary function is to extend the reach of a forklift and allow it to pick up heavy loads that are oddly shaped or not on pallets. In many respects, a boom attachment combines the function of a fork truck and a small crane.

How do they operate?

Fork lift booms fit directly over the tines on a forklift. They are then secured with chains or clamps. In basic models, the boom simply extends in from the front of the fork truck. More complex lines are built with a vertical riser that will lift the far end of the boom, just like a crane. Different types of booms are either fixed length or telescoping. Some models pivot from side to side; others remain pointed toward the front of the forklift at all times.

What are they used to move?

Fork lift booms are mostly used for lifting and moving very heavy items safely, quickly, and easily. Because of the extra height they add to a forklift, they can access higher elevations like roofs of buildings. They are often used to unload freight from open rail cars and flatbed truck trailers. This reduces the time it takes to move freight into the warehouse. Some heavy items, like barrels, are not stored on pallets, so normal fork trucks cannot safely lift them. Booms are typically attached to fork trucks to move large heavy sections of pipe, heavy crates, and cylindrical objects like drums. Many times too, fork truck boom attachments make it a lot easier to move large objects stored in hard to reach areas.

They will definitely save you the money you would otherwise have to invest in a crane. Compared to pallet trucks and fork trucks, they drastically improve the margin of safety when it comes to moving non-palletized loads and oddly shaped heavy loads. When transporting products from one level to another, they are invaluable time savers in comparison to freight elevators. Forklift attachment booms can be used by one licensed fork truck operator, so a small team can get a great deal accomplish without having to overextend its manpower. When removing old HVAC systems, or installing new ones, they are very effective.

No. Many people use the two terms synonymously, but the term industrial really means that these material handling products are used in storage areas, factories, and warehouses. Both light weight and heavy duty models feature the same basic design: two forks that slip under a pallet, lift it off the ground, and allow it to be moved to another location. Most pallet trucks now have forks that adjust laterally so that pallets can be gripped from the inside prior to being lifted.

What types of power do they use?

Some are completely manually powered, with a hydraulic jack that is pumped by a handle, and the unit is pushed or pulled by hand. However, newer designs now feature power assisted units that get the wheels moving so that the operator does not have to strain to create sufficient force to start them rolling. Many powered units operate on gas or electric power and do all the lifting, forward motion, and reverse motion automatically.

Which type is better?

If you invest in an ergonomic manual model, you can easily move a load weighing over two tons safely. The advantage of using an industrial pallet jack that has no motor is that it has fewer complex parts that can fail. However, no matter how ergonomic such a unit is, there is still a certain amount of physical force that is required to move the jack and the load. With electric and/or gasoline powered pallet trucks, you never have to use any physical force to lift or push the unit. Also, the user friendly controls make maneuvering the pallet more like driving a vehicle than pushing a large load with a tool.

Are the powered, heavy duty models worth the investment?

If you have very large loads, or oddly sized loads, yes. You’ll find that electric or gas powered units are easier to maneuver in all directions. This improves process flow by minimizing collisions, and it is far safer for the operator as well because there is no need to apply muscle power to moving the load.

Do you have industrial pallet jacks for specialized applications?

Yes. Some industries, like the food distribution industry or the pharmaceuticals industry, require clean rooms for storage and processing. We recommend using stainless steel pallet trucks for these areas. There are also pallet jacks made for moving long materials safely in a lateral as well as linear direction, and units that feature built in scales.

Is an industrial pallet jack a heavy duty pallet jack?No. Many people use the two terms synonymously, but the term industrial really means that these material handling products are used in storage areas, factories, and warehouses. Both light weight and heavy duty models feature the same basic design: two forks that slip under a pallet, lift it off the ground, and allow it to be moved to another location. Most pallet trucks now have forks that adjust laterally so that pallets can be gripped from the inside prior to being lifted.

What types of power do they use?Some are completely manually powered, with a hydraulic jack that is pumped by a handle, and the unit is pushed or pulled by hand. However, newer designs now feature power assisted units that get the wheels moving so that the operator does not have to strain to create sufficient force to start them rolling. Many powered units operate on gas or electric power and do all the lifting, forward motion, and reverse motion automatically.

Which type is better?If you invest in an ergonomic manual model, you can easily move a load weighing over two tons safely. The advantage of using an industrial pallet jack that has no motor is that it has fewer complex parts that can fail. However, no matter how ergonomic such a unit is, there is still a certain amount of physical force that is required to move the jack and the load. With electric and/or gasoline powered pallet trucks, you never have to use any physical force to lift or push the unit. Also, the user friendly controls make maneuvering the pallet more like driving a vehicle than pushing a large load with a tool.

Are the powered, heavy duty models worth the investment?If you have very large loads, or oddly sized loads, yes. You’ll find that electric or gas powered units are easier to maneuver in all directions. This improves process flow by minimizing collisions, and it is far safer for the operator as well because there is no need to apply muscle power to moving the load.

Do you have industrial pallet jacks for specialized applications?Yes. Some industries, like the food distribution industry or the pharmaceuticals industry, require clean rooms for storage and processing. We recommend using stainless steel pallet trucks for these areas. There are also pallet jacks made for moving long materials safely in a lateral as well as linear direction, and units that feature built in scales. round a store or warehouse.

It is a tubular extension that converts your forklift into a mobile crane that can handle odd sized loads, rounded loads, and long loads. Most booms are telescoping with two hook points. Some models are designed for heavy duty application and have up to 13 hook points.

How does a forklift boom operate?

It attaches to a forklift and extends out in front of it. Hooks on its underside attach to various objects, which it lifts like the arm of a crane.

Where are fork lift boom attachments used?

They are used in warehouses, construction sites, equipment yards, and loading areas.

What are they used for?

They are used to load logs onto flat bed trailers. In many shipping yards, they are used to load and unload pipes and barrels that cannot be safely lifted with fork hooks or pallet jacks. They are used to erect metal building walls and set roofs on top of those walls. Many home builders also use them to set wooden trusses. Inside of warehouses, any item that cannot be safely moved with a pallet rack or a fork truck can be lifted and moved with a forklift boom attachment. In equipment yards, they are often used to quickly move things around to clear space for incoming loads or vehicle traffic. Many shipping companies also use them to offload crates from flatbed trailers or flatbed railcars.

What benefits do fork lift boom attachments offer an organization?

They get many material handling jobs done faster and easier with a much lower risk of injury. They save companies thousands of dollars that would otherwise be spent on the procurement of cranes because they basically turn fork trucks into mobile cranes. One licensed forklift driver can do many different things with these and other forklift attachments, so a small crew can devote the majority of its workers to other tasks. They also make it safe for forklift drivers to handle loads of varying height and odd dimensions. On low-rise construction sites, they make it easier to complete projects on time by getting materials to higher floors and building roofs without having to wait for an available freight elevator and hope that whatever workers need to load on it will fit.

What is the weight capacity of the smallest fork lift boom attachment? The largest?

That depends upon the intended application. Businesses should carefully asses their lifting requirements before purchasing a fork truck boom. Easy Rack representatives can help select a boom whose maximum weight capacity exceeds the largest object that a business needs to move.

What is a fork lift boom attachment?It is a tubular extension that converts your forklift into a mobile crane that can handle odd sized loads, rounded loads, and long loads. Most booms are telescoping with two hook points. Some models are designed for heavy duty application and have up to 13 hook points.
How does a forklift boom operate?It attaches to a forklift and extends out in front of it. Hooks on its underside attach to various objects, which it lifts like the arm of a crane.

Where are fork lift boom attachments used?They are used in warehouses, construction sites, equipment yards, and loading areas.
What are they used for?They are used to load logs onto flat bed trailers. In many shipping yards, they are used to load and unload pipes and barrels that cannot be safely lifted with fork hooks or pallet jacks. They are used to erect metal building walls and set roofs on top of those walls. Many home builders also use them to set wooden trusses. Inside of warehouses, any item that cannot be safely moved with a pallet rack or a fork truck can be lifted and moved with a forklift boom attachment. In equipment yards, they are often used to quickly move things around to clear space for incoming loads or vehicle traffic. Many shipping companies also use them to offload crates from flatbed trailers or flatbed railcars.

What benefits do fork lift boom attachments offer an organization? They get many material handling jobs done faster and easier with a much lower risk of injury. They save companies thousands of dollars that would otherwise be spent on the procurement of cranes because they basically turn fork trucks into mobile cranes. One licensed forklift driver can do many different things with these and other forklift attachments, so a small crew can devote the majority of its workers to other tasks. They also make it safe for forklift drivers to handle loads of varying height and odd dimensions. On low-rise construction sites, they make it easier to complete projects on time by getting materials to higher floors and building roofs without having to wait for an available freight elevator and hope that whatever workers need to load on it will fit.
What is the weight capacity of the smallest fork lift boom attachment? The largest?That depends upon the intended application. Businesses should carefully asses their lifting requirements before purchasing a fork truck boom. Easy Rack representatives can help select a boom whose maximum weight capacity exceeds the largest object that a business needs to move.

How sturdy is a prefabricated modular office building compared to a conventional office structure?
They are at least equally sturdy. Manufacturers and material handling vendors like us seek to exceed building codes, fire safety codes, and accessibility codes so that our clients will not have to worry about the soundness of the structure. We want our clients to feel confident in the fact that even though they are paying drastically less for each square foot of their building, the quality of that building is every bit as good as one they would have paid a lot more money to build, and would have had to wait a lot longer to have been finished.

Inspectors have found that prefab buildings have consistently met the structural requirements necessary for weathering hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes without having to be reinforced with additional support structures.

Is there a limit on the size of our prefabricated modular office building?
There is no limit to the actual size of the overall building, but there are size limits to the individual modules used to create the building. For example, if you are building a research and development wing for your company, you may want to create offices for your managers, cubicle spaces for your laboratory technicians, one or more actual laboratory areas for development and testing, and one or more storage areas. Each of these areas will be composed of at least one module that will need to be safely transported overland. These size limits vary from state to state and are determined not by us, but by the Department of Transportation.

What are some industries that are using prefab office space?
One of the biggest industries we are starting to work with is the medical industry. Hospitals that need to add on to their facility find that prefab buildings can be used for a variety of purposes including outpatient centers, general clinics, operating rooms, and psychiatric facilities.

How long does it take to build a prefabricated modular office building?
Experience has shown it saves as much as 40% on time to project completion. The efficiency of the design, transport, and assembly process is responsible for this. Safety equipment, wiring, plumbing, and interior architecture are manufactured into the building prior to shipment. Your site will be prepared early for its arrival during the construction process so that when the modules arrive they can be rapidly assembled and ready for use as soon as possible.

Easy Rack account managers will work with you on a consultative basis to build you a custom industrial pallet rack that will maximize space, safety, storage efficiency, and process flow in your facility. The following list itemizes the many results we have generated for clients over the past years.

Custom pallet racking will give you direct access to every individual pallet on the rack without your employees having to move other pallets around it. This dramatically reduces product damage and product drop rates.

Custom racks also let you create staging areas in your facility that will make much better use of your existing floor space. The key to doing this is to design your pallet racking storage system in a way that will make the most use of your vertical cube so you have more wall space and floor space available for other needs. This makes it easier to store, find, and retrieve pallets without mishap or injury.

If you have planned to expand your facility or move, consider the enormous cost that both of these options represent. In our company history, we have saved this expense for so many companies like yours by building industrial pallet racks that created more aisle space and work areas in their existing facility. Typically companies can forestall a move for several years. Some of our previous clients now believe they may not ever have to move to a new building thanks to the storage systems we built them.

The way our team works is to listen to you, examine the data you provide, and calculate the optimal measurements for your racking system. If we are selling used pallet racks, we go one step further. Since no one can guarantee the weight capacity for a used beam, we will build the rack with longer beams if necessary and configure the system to have additional supports at mid span. Also, we test each beam prior to shipping to make sure it is in the best working condition possible.

Used industrial pallet racks can save you up to 40 percent on the cost of a rack system, so if you are facing a very tight budget, call Easy Rack for a quote on a used system. Once the system is designed and the parts are tested, we will ship it to your location and facilitate installation with a team of trained specialists who will work on our behalf to help set it up in your building.

Conventional Pallet Storage Conventional pallet storage is useful for warehouse operations characterized by the following inventory control needs:

They have to store pallets by individual sku numbers.

They must have quick individual access to each pallet.

The must have plenty of aisle space to facilitate fork lift access to any point on the rack.

In bigger warehouses, most conventional pallet storage is built single-depth. In smaller warehouses, pallet racks can be built double depth to compensate for limited space. Double-depth pallet storage allows one pallet to be stored behind the other. Drive-In Pallet Storage Drive-in pallet storage allows pallets to be stored inside the rack itself, and for forklifts to drive into the rack to retrieve them. Warehouses require drive-in style pallet racks whenever they face the following circumstances:

They must convert anywhere from 70-85% of existing floor space and vertical area into organized pallet storage space.

They have low turnover rates, and tend to leave pallets on the rack for extended amounts of time.

There is no available floor space to use for aisles.

Live Pallet Storage Live storage racks use gravity to move pallets to waiting forklifts by means of a slight incline in the rack When one pallet is retrieved, another one slides in right behind it. Food and pharmaceutical companies use this design a great deal. Other warehouses may also benefit from this type of pallet storage if they face any of the following circumstances:

A need to minimize pallet retrieval time.

A, non-motorized method of moving the pallets to forklifts

A low-maintenance system.

Push-back pallet storage The push back system works in a similar manner as the live pallet storage system, but it uses trolleys and rolling rails in addition to the force of gravity. When a pallet is taken from one end, the others slide down slightly to fill the gap. Loading and unloading is easily done from the central aisle. Mobile Pallet Storage This type of rack rests on a motorized base that can be moved either with manual controls or remote PC. An operation needs this when:

A warehouse has to reduce the number of aisles between rack

The facility must increase its total capacity

Process flow demands direct, individual access to every pallet

All pallet storage systems are available in either new or used condition. Used pallet racks can cost as much as 40% less as new storage rack. Pricing depends on the availability of beams and uprights and shipping rates to your part of the country. Easy Rack sells nationwide and will assist in designing pallet storage racking that is customized to specific facilities and industry types.

For beginners, they let air continually circulate so that dust will not accumulate. In the event of a fire, wire will not burn, and it will not block sprinkler water. Each individual shelf can be adjusted to accommodate differently sized products and materials.

These storage units are ideal for converting the vertical cube and unused floor space into usable storage space.

As cliché as it sounds, organization is everything to an organization’s success. With clutter and disorganization gone, order and management make operations safe and more efficient. This improves employee morale and labor efficiency.

This also helps companies who feel pressured to move because they are running out of space. More efficient use of space makes it possible to stay in the same building.

It has two trays that support two removable baskets. The baskets can be used to sort, organized, and deliver letter mail. Baskets are designed to accommodate both letter and legal sized documents.

When the baskets are removed, packages or boxes containing parts or supplies can be moved on the trays. This makes the unit much more than a simple mail delivery tool.

Is it easy to maneuver?

Yes. It moves on swivel casters and features rear brakes. It is easy to steer. It also features an all steel construction to protect it against accidental collisions that can and do occur in crowded warehouse environments, small offices, public schools, and busy factories.

Does the unit ship preassembled?

No. It is easy to assemble, so preassembly is not necessary.

How much more efficient will the double tray double basket mail cart make my business? Do I really need one?

If the US Postal Services uses these carts, that should say something about the effectiveness of these simple, but remarkable tools. Inside your mail room, your clerks will have a much easier task organizing mail prior to delivery. The removable carts make it easier to separate packages and letters.

You may have other paperwork that needs to be shuffled around. If you work in an auto repair shop or small factory plant, you may also use these mail carts to move inventory around or keep track of inventory documentation. Staying on top of you documentation is the key to getting inventory over with without mistakes or additional cost to your organization. If you are in construction, these little carts can even be used to move around tools.

Can these mail carts be used on warehouse floors?

That depends on what you are shipping and receiving. If you have small trucks coming in with small boxes, yes, you can use them to load and offload smaller items.

How many mail carts should a company buy?

Normally a small office needs only one. Most of the mail coming in is going to be letter mail, and that is only going to go to executives. Larger organizations will need several carts to separate package mail, supplies, and letters and send them to different floors.